17 May
2007
17 May
'07
10:50 a.m.
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 03:13:02PM +0530, Anant Narayanan wrote:
Are there any specific advantages of using the modem in bridged mode (PPPoE) as compared to the default setup?
One thing I can tell you is that accounting is easier in bridge mode, since PPPoE logs the exact number of bytes sent and received in /var/log/messages (or a similar file). For example, I had a crude script which used to do quite well (for most cases) here:
http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~ee03b091/pyprogs/inettime.html
But in the router mode, I can't do accounting easily. vnstat seems to be a good option, but I never seem to be able to match MTNL's stats.
Kumar
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